Definition of "solemnly" []

• In a solemn manner. (adverb)

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• "He frowned instead, kneeling down to speak to the boy, no more than seven or eight, who faced them solemnly from the rubble. “We†™ re here to help, ” Headley assured him. “Are you hurt?"
• "And we pronounced the word solemnly, with a reverence that was almost mystic."
• "In it my brother set forth that he had pledged his word solemnly and beyond recall to Ann and her parents, and entreated my lover to declare to the Tetzels and to his grand-uncle that henceforth and forever he renounced Ursula."